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Congrats on the deer.

My dad built a grinder like this by attaching an electric motor and gear reduction to a large hand grinder. It runs a lot slower than this one, which looks to be spinning about 5 times faster than needed. The large openings on the hand grinders are not very safe; power grinders intentionally use a long narrow feed tube so your fingers can't get caught.

I'd suggest adding a speed reducer (gearbox or larger pulley) and using a meat pusher.

ex: https://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/10-1-horizontal-shaft-worm-gear-speed-reducer/A-p8494130f

ex: https://www.amazon.ca/Avan-Pacific-Grinder-Universal-Tamper-Butcher/dp/B01F068QB8/

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B004R7L7YU/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1427578125&sr=8-3&keywords=alps&dpPl=1&dpID=41E67xUOBgL&ref=plSrch&pi=SY200_QL40

Great reviews, can be used with the pack (nice and big) or just as a cargo pack, quite inexpensive and free shipping in Canada :-)

I'm in BC (regions 1, 2, 3) and only use a flip up wool mitten, like this. Wool+fleece keep their warmth when wet, and i wouldn't put them on in the rain until i was to an area i was going to sit for a while and/or it was cold enough to warrant it.

I've got poor circulation and i find gloves just don't keep my hands warm at all, many times they actually make them colder. Mittens on the other hand? Nice and toasty, and when its time to shoot just flip the front and your ready to go. I've seen Blaze Orange ones at BassPro but other than that I'm still looking for nice hunting ones but everyone just makes gloves.

Randy Newberg recommends a "chopper Mitt" which is a calf skin mitten with a sheep wool liner for the cold and goretex gloves for the rain for what thats worth.

As for dexterity in a glove without taking them off: they're either going to be real thin and for concealment or insulated to keep you warm(and thus too bulky to shoot with).

If suggest you focus on whitetail for the next few seasons until you get the hang of it.
Also buy this book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Guide-Hunting-Butchering-Cooking/dp/081299406X

Keep the sun at your back and the wind in your face as much as you can.
Walk very slow and take irregular steps. Think of how a moose would walk through the woods. Stop-go browse a bit, walk a step, stop walk.

The farther you are from a city or town the easier it is to get permission from farmers.

Be an ambassador for ethical hunting especially on social media.
Be mindful of what you post (some people may not understand/appreciate a grip and grin picture with a dead deer with its tongue hanging out and it's face full of blood)

There is a meat eater podcast and the Pace brothers have into the wilderness that's worth listening to (especially the one with Ivan Carter)

Good luck this season.

recommend: hollow points

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B006O74XQ0/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Personally I would recommend this book. It covers more than just blacktail but talks mostly about america. I don't know of any Canada specific books.

I have this bag. It's not bad once you get it adjusted and it's currently 1/2 price.

https://www.amazon.ca/ALPS-OutdoorZ-Bear-Hunting-Realtree/dp/B004Y7J434/ref=sr_1_4?s=sports&ie=UTF8&qid=1506367133&sr=1-4

I also run to pair's of gloves for those temps.

A pair of under armor cold weather gloves as a base. I used these through bow season in PA and into gun season. When it gets into the 20's F I add liners to them. Even with these they aren't to bulky to use with the gun. Then i add the insulate mittens with the flip tops as the last addition.